The essay Silent Dancing was a little confusing to me, most of the time I couldn't tell who was talking to who. The speaker was changed too much without any kind of notice. Buut what I did get from it was that her father was extremely protective of his family, so much to the point that he didn't even want them to talk to people of the same nationalality. I found that very odd, because most people would rather talk to people of the same race, mainly for comfort though. I also saw that the mother didn't agree with this because she would still go to the smaller grocery stores around the neighborhood eventhough her husband told her not to.